YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY MINNESOTA
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Submitted to the Minnesota Biographies Project by:
Name: LaNaye Hennen
Email: henfarms@clarkfield.ruralink.com
Date: 29 June 2000
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"A History of Yellow Medicine County" by Arthur P. Rose,published in 1914
CHARLES DOVIN (1897)
Charles Dovin, of Burr, is manager of the Farmers Elevator and Supply
Company at that point. The elevator was built in 1905, at the time the
company was organized by the farmers. The officers are: Daniel Blininger,
president; John Reyerson, secretary; Hjelmer Magnusson, treasurer; Milo R.
Olson, bookkeeper; Anton R. Angord, J. J. Miller, Andrew Amundson, Alfred
Froberg, Peter Hanson, trustees; Charles Dovin, manager.
Mr. Dovin was born in Paris, France, on February 19, 1869, and in that
country he received his education. He came the United States in 1886 and
settled in New Ulm, later going to Minneapolis, where he worked in the
Minneapolis Club House. After a time he returned to New Ulm and worked for
the Eagle Roller Mill Company. In 1897 he located in Canby, where he
resided two years. Then for a few years he bought grain for the Eagle
Elevator Company; since 1907 he has been manager of the Farmers Elevator
Company at Burr.
Mr. Dovin was married at New Ulm on September 1, 1889, to Bertha Berndt,
daughter of Julius Berndt, pioneer of Brown county and that county's first
surveyor. Mr. and Mrs. Dovin have seven children: Arnin, Roland, Elsie,
Rosie, August, Erna, and Chester.
Mr. Dovin is a member of the Masonic and Modern Woodmen orders. He has held
the office of justice of the peace. His parents died when he was a mere
babe, and he is the only one of the family left.